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Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen lives in New York City. His books include the novels Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto. His essay collection, Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction, is forthcoming from Random House in 2018. He was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2017.  

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Fiction | Issue 143
Fiction | Issue 143

Mall Camp, Seasons 1 & 2

Joshua Cohen

‘He was thirteen years old or just about and newly an only child. Newly not a child.’

In Conversation | Issue 143
In Conversation | Issue 143

Joshua Cohen | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Joshua Cohen & Luke Neima

‘The fact that you exist means that you have a story that's worth telling’

Fiction | Issue 139 padlock
Fiction | Issue 139 padlock

Uri

Joshua Cohen

‘There’s just no way, unassisted, to commit suicide. But then there’s no way to be just a human, isolated, stripped or just stripped of contexts – because even a cell must have a floor, a ceiling, walls.’

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